Do you want to live with real peace, contentment and joy in life? Do you want to have the power to overcome temptation or persevere through adversity?
one of the most neglected subjects in
the Bible is the work of the Holy Spirit
in the life of the believer you would
think that as important as that subject
is that more people would be talking
about it more people be referring to the
Holy Spirit but there are millions of
people who sit in church week after week
after week year after year never hear a
single sermon dedicated to the Holy
Spirit in his work in our life when it’s
so crystal clear from the scripture that
you cannot live a godly life you cannot
serve the Lord adequately unless you
understand how he works in your life and
you certainly cannot understand the
truth of God’s Word apart from the Holy
Spirit one of his primary
responsibilities is to interpret the
Word of God for us properly and yet
sometimes you think well whose fault is
that is the people who sit in the pews
of the men who stand in the pulpit and I
think primarily it is the men who stand
in the pulpit and the truth is not
anyone who preaches the gospel apart
from the Holy Spirit and the anointing
of the Spirit and then Dumon of God’s
power upon his or her life doesn’t
making us who it is apart from the Holy
Spirit it’s not going to be nearly as
effective it’s not gonna have the fruit
that that work would have were the
Spirit of God the one upon whom the
speaker was depending to get the job
done it’s his responsibility it’s the
work of the Holy Spirit and for a lot of
people it’s just sort of on one of those
subjects they just say well I’ll talk
about Jesus and God I don’t know who
this Holy Spirit is because I used to
read the Bible and it’s talked about the
Holy Ghost well I can remember growing
up and naturally we only had the King
James Version and they and it was
translated Holy Ghost instead of Holy
Spirit and I remember thinking as a kid
I’m not that Ghost business I’m not sure
how I can handle that because I didn’t
understand that and so and then of
course some people think well the Holy
Spirit’s all about tongues you have to
speak in tongues and so they just
totally disregarding the truth is and I
want to say it again you cannot
interpret the Word of God properly you
cannot live a godly life and you cannot
serve
adequately apart from the power of the
Spirit of God working in your life so
what I want to talk about in this
message is walking by the Holy Spirit
and I want you to turn if you will to
Galatians chapter 5 and I want assisant
look at a couple of verses here because
there’s so much that we could talk about
but I want to put it all in one message
because I want you to get the full
impact of how important the Holy Spirit
is in your life as a believer and if
you’ll notice in the fifth chapter of
Galatians here’s what he says in verse
16 but I say walk by the spirit and you
will not carry out the desires of the
flesh now what are the desires of the
flesh we’re talking about those desires
that find their source within that part
of us that has a desire to live outside
the will of God in other words when Paul
speaks of the flesh he’s not talking
about flesh and blood he’s talking about
part of something within us that is when
a person is saved the Spirit of God
comes into your life to dwell and so
we’re transforming a brand new creatures
in Christ but that does not remove that
propensity that tendency at times that
desires to do something outside the will
of God to stand against God and so when
a person is living in the flesh they are
expressing that inner desire to do
something go somewhere have some
attitude that is not godly we all have
to deal with it every single day of our
life and so when he says here I said to
you walk by the spirit and you will not
carry out the desires of the flesh then
if you look in the 25th verse of the
same chapter Paul says again if we live
by the Spirit that is controlled by him
dominated by him the holy spirit let us
also walk by the spirit that is if he is
really in control of air of life let us
walk by the holy spirit now well we have
to star this we have to start in first
of all answering the question will who
is he and somebody says a lot on the who
he is I know who Jesus is under who God
I don’t know who the Holy Spirit is oh
I’ve heard that he’s a person of the
Trinity well let’s start where the Bible
starts and that is in the first book of
the Bible the first chapter of the Bible
the second verse of the Bible
you found the Holy Spirit hovering over
this earth that is not totally complete
and then you find in the 26th verse God
says let us make man in our image well
who in the world is us well there’s the
Holy Spirit in that second verse us is
also the Lord Jesus Christ because if
you notice in if you notice in
Colossians for example when Paul is
talking about Jesus and who he is and
our response told him he says for by him
we’re all things created both in the
heavens and on earth visible and
invisible whether Thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities all things have
been created through him and for him
which simply says this that this whole
creation is involved with God the Father
God the Son God the Holy Spirit all
three persons of the Trinity so also
you’ll find throughout the scripture
that the Bible speaks of the Holy Spirit
and in Zechariah for example that fourth
chapter the scripture says not by might
nor by power but by my spirit says the
Lord that is that’s the way we’re to
live and that’s the way we had to serve
Him in dependence upon him now when
you’re thinking about the Holy Spirit
somebody says well is he some force is
that some biblical force no he’s a
person and I want to show you in a few
moments if you turn to look if you will
in John chapter 14 and you’ll find that
the qualities of a person for example
that can think they can reason that has
emotion that can will that can make
choices and so forth look if you will in
this 14th chapter and the 16th verse
when somebody says well I don’t believe
in the Trinity well how do you answer
this question John 14:16
ah Jesus speaking we’ll ask the Father
and He will give you another helper and
that he may be with you forever that is
the Spirit of Truth there’s all the
Trinity right then there’s two verses in
the 26th verse look at that
but the helper the Holy Spirit whom the
father will send in my name he will
teach you all things and bring to your
remembrance all that I’ve said to you so
both of these verses give you the father
son the Holy Spirit all three persons of
the Trinity is somebody says well do you
all believe in three gods no there are
three persons of the Trinity
there is one that Godhead one God three
persons the father does his work the son
does his work the spirit does his work
and the work of the Holy Spirit is a
vital part and every single believers
life and it’s tragic that people can go
to church and listen to sermons year
after year after year and never
understand the work of the spirit and
wonder why they fail in their Christian
life why things don’t work out where I
got this an answer their prayer why they
feel so weak while they’re so tempted
while they yield and on and on and on it
goes and there is a very specific reason
for that because when you look to see
the work of the Holy Spirit and who he
is and that he’s a person of the Trinity
and that God has called him and sent him
into your life and male for some very
very specific purposes so we’re talking
about someone whom the father has sent
into your life in my life because we
could not be nor could we become nor
could we ever accomplish what he has in
mind apart from the Holy Spirit if I
were to ask you what is the Holy Spirit
who he is this what what does he mean to
you and for many people they’d have to
say well I know it’s in the Bible
because I read the Holy Spirit well is
he a person yes he is the Holy Spirit is
as much a person as Jesus because the
scripture if you’ll notice calls him he
and the Holy Spirit whom and when you
look at the work he does and what he
does in your life in my life he has to
be a person so the Holy Spirit is a
vital part of every single believers
life so I want us to look for just a
moment I’m going to take you through
some of these verses just to sort of get
you oriented here and I want to start
with this 14th chapter John and we just
mentioned a couple of them here and I
want you to see what the Holy Spirit
does in our life and the helper here in
the Greek is Parakletos which means one
who walks beside us one who is and he
calls him here our helper it is the same
word translated comforter so both of
which mean that we have someone with us
who helps us who comforts us along with
some other things he’ll notice in verse
26 he says but the help of the Holy
Spirit whom not it which but whom the
father will send in my name he will
teach you all things that is the work of
the Holy Spirit in the life of the
believer is that he teaches as the truth
unless the Spirit of God interprets the
truth for us it won’t be correct they’re
all kind of theologists and all kind of
ideas and all kind of religions out
there believe all kind of stuff because
it’s man-made religion man-made theology
apart from the work of a Spirit of God
when they’re no contradictions in this
book now listen he says not only will he
teach us all these things but secondly
he will bring to your remembrance all
that I teach you and all that I meant
for you to understand that is he is also
a reminder for example let’s say
somebody says well I’d like to witness
to somebody I’m afraid I’ll forget the
verses remember this you have the Holy
Spirit to remind you one of his
responsibilities is to remind us of the
things we need to remember and primarily
of course that is the Word of God then
if you will look in the fifteenth
chapter and look in the 26th verse of
this fifteenth chapter of John he says
again when the helper that is the Holy
Spirit comes whom I will send to you
from the father that is the Spirit of
Truth he’s often in the scripture call
the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from
the father he will testify about me that
is the work of the Holy Spirit it’s that
it’s to testify about who Jesus is what
he does in his place in our life watch
this the Holy Spirit never talks about
himself
it’s always about Jesus that is part of
his responsibility then if when you look
at this sixteenth chapter and the eighth
verse here’s another work of the Holy
Spirit you think for example that you
got saved because you chose to be say
well that’s true to some degree but
first of all what got you realizing that
you needed to be saved you got under
conviction verse eight of the sixteenth
chapter
he the Holy Spirit when he comes he will
convict the world
listen concerning sin righteousness and
judgment and concerning sin because they
do not believe in me concerning
righteousness because I go to the Father
and you no longer see me and concerning
judgment because the ruler of this world
has been judged I have many more things
to say to you but you cannot bear them
down and so but when the spirit of truth
comes he will guide you into all truth
he convicts us of her sins he is a
teacher and he guides us into all truth
and verse 14 says he will glorify me
that is the Spirit of God is continually
pointing us to Jesus and helping us to
see who he is how he fits into our life
and why we so desperately need him and
so when you look at all these verses and
then you come to Romans chapter 8 so
look at chapter 8 for a moment and I
want you to notice a few verses here
that are also so very important because
in Romans chapter 8 Paul describes in a
few verses here a great deal he says for
example beginning in verse 11 but if the
spirit of him who raised Jesus from the
dead dwells in you he who raised Christ
Jesus from the dead will also give life
to your mortal bodies through his spirit
who dwells where in you every single
believer has the Holy Spirit indwelling
him so what’s this every single believer
has a person of the Trinity indwelling
us in our spirit we listen we talk about
being filled with the spirit a person is
filled with the Holy Spirit when they’re
living in obedience to him and following
him and walking in his ways and so he
says the Spirit indwells us look if he
will in the fourteenth verse for all who
are being led by the Spirit of God these
are the sons of God he not only guides
us but he the scripture says he leads us
and indwells us and in verse 15 for
you’ve not received a spirit of slavery
leading to fear again but you have
received a spirit of adoption as sons by
which we cry out Abba Father that is he
is the one who gives us assurance of our
relationship to the Father that is the
Holy Spirit testifies to everybody
you are you are one of God’s children
you have been adopted into the kingdom
and so we come to buy that through the
Holy Spirit and then he says in verse 16
the Spirit Himself testifies with our
spirit that we are the children of God
that is bears witness and and for
example somebody says to you well you
say you say I’m sure I’m saying why are
you so sure well you could give them a
lot of reasons but the real truth is the
Holy Spirit bears witness gives you
assurance it reminds you that you
trusted Christ as your Savior remind you
of the promises of God therefore you can
with assurance say yes I know that I’m
saved it is the work of the Holy Spirit
that does that then of course for
example if you turn to the twelfth
chapter of first Corinthians now all the
scriptures here about the gifts the gift
of prophecy the gift of exhortation and
giving and service and mercy and
administration and all the rest where
does all that come from well the
scripture says in verse 4 1st
Corinthians chapter 12 now these are the
varieties of gifts but the same spirit
it is the same spirit of God that gives
these gifts and you’ll notice in verse 7
but to each one that is to each believer
is given a manifestation of the spirit
for the common good and for adverse a
for the one who’s given the word of
wisdom through the spirit to another the
word of knowledge according to the same
spirit and so it’s very evident what’s
happening here then if you will turn
back to Acts chapter 1 for a moment and
you recall when Tom had all the works of
the Holy Spirit you recall that Jesus
had taken his disciples for three years
taught him all the things that he felt
they needed to know he performed
miracles he raised the dead he healed
bodies of all kinds of diseases he
taught them all kind of truth and then
he said them at the end of three years
after they had been so shocked by the
crucifixion and in a state of total
disarray by understanding what’s going
on now the resurrection has come and
then what he said to them he said no
look you sit down in the city of
Jerusalem sit down in the city of
Jerusalem until you are endued with
power from on high that is you’re not
ready for example
in the 24th chapter of Luke he gives us
at that part of the Great Commission and
then he says of course in Matthew gives
us a great commission and then also in
mark but an actual Accord he says now in
verse 7 he said to them it is not for
you to know the times of the seasons
which the father has fixed by his own
authority but you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit has come upon you
and you shall be my witnesses both in
Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria
and the uttermost parts of the earth so
what was he saying he’s saying simply
this even though you’ve seen all this
even though you’ve heard all this even
though you’ve witnessed all the things
that I’ve done you’re still not ready to
do the work that I’ve told you to do
until the Spirit of God indwells you
then the Old Testament the Holy Spirit
would come upon God’s servants and and
depart and come at Pentecost the Holy
Spirit descended to this earth to
indwell all believers so that from that
point on every single person who is a
child of God isn’t dwelt by a person of
the Trinity called the Holy Spirit and
so when somebody says to me well I’m
just a nobody I get all excited when
they tell me that because I can’t wait
to tell them who they are
so you trusted Jesus Christ is just save
you yes then you’re a child of God
you’re indwelt by the Holy Spirit a
person the trend I just go right down
the line and by the time I finish they
changed their whole attitude listen you
can’t be on nobody and be saved with
Jesus you can’t be on nobody and be
dropped by the Holy Spirit you can’t be
a nobody with having one in you to teach
you remind you strengthen you go right
down the list of all the things that we
talked about and the reason I read that
list is because I want you to see there
it is in black and white in the Word of
God this is who he is and this is what
he’s doing in the life of his followers
and so he intends for us to walk by his
spirit now a lot of people for example
who say well now I think I try to do the
best I can I think about Sunday School
teachers who take this on the school
lesson book or maybe the Bible and then
read the lesson and they get this get it
down pretty good and they go to some
school class and they teach the lesson
who’s the teacher the holy spirit who’s
the equip the holy spirit who gives
interpretation the Word of God the Holy
Spirit listen it is the power of the
Holy Spirit within you that’s why he
told them you’re not ready until the
Spirit of God has come upon you and then
it is the authority of the Spirit the
power of the Spirit the unction of the
Spirit that teaches through a Sunday
school teacher through a pastor through
an evangelist sings through a musician
you name it God intends for all of us
that do our work in his power in his
energy in his strength and by his
authority what is done apart from the
Holy Spirit is flesh it’s man’s own
human effort we can never carry a
spiritual work God’s work in the flesh
in our own energy apart from the Holy
Spirit that is one of the primary
reasons he sent the Holy Spirit you may
be a person you think will now study and
I pray and and God gives me a message
and I just get up until it and you
ignore the Holy Spirit you’re not
relying upon him for wisdom you’re not
relying upon him for courage you’re not
relying upon him for inspiration you’re
not relying upon him for motivation
you’re not relying upon him for
interpretation you’re not relying upon
him for power you’re not relying upon
him for authority you cannot do what God
has called you to do
the way he intends for you to do it
apart from the Holy Spirit that’s who he
is that’s why I came there’s no
substitute for the Holy Spirit you can’t
put on a PhD each th-these RFDS any
other kind of these behind anybody’s
name and make them adequate to do the
work God’s called them to do you cannot
do it and so I remember one of the most
significant times in my life and I’d
only been in seminary a year and I was
in my second year and I had a place over
the corner where I prayed and in the
living room and in a very small
apartment and so I was praying one night
and the Lord just spoke to my heart
crystal clear I’ll never forget it
whatever you accomplished in life you
will have to accomplish on your knees in
prayer
not by education but not by talent not
by gifts
oh by calling out to me crying out to me
it has to be on your knees and God knew
that that meant for me total dependence
upon the Holy Spirit because you see
when you’re not praying right he’s
involved because one listen one of his
responsibilities is in Romans chapter 8
26 when he says the Holy Spirit prays
for us and through us intercedes for us
because we don’t even know how to pray
sometime
haven’t you been on your knees and
crying out to God for somebody you
didn’t know what to ask you just knew
they were in trouble
you didn’t know what to say you just
said God help them Lord I’m just
trusting you to work in their life the
Spirit of God takes your prayer and
interprets it listen personally
perfectly before the father because he
knows our heart personal eternity knows
all things about all times situations
and circumstances and so when I look at
what he does and the awesome power
available to us I think how foolish for
us to try to do anything apart from the
Spirit of God now that’s who he is
that’s what he does and the issue now is
what does it mean to walk by the spirit
how do we walk by the spirit well I want
to put a definition up on the screen
here and I want you to write it down
because every single one of us needs to
understand this listen to walk in the
spirit or by the spirit either way you
want to call it is to live moment by
moment now not today and maybe tomorrow
moment by moment what independence upon
him sensitive to his voice in our life
and in obedience to him those three
words dependency sensitive to him and
obedience so if I’m walking in the
spirit
you’ll notice that I’m not doing that on
Monday and then on Thursday next and
maybe make some Sunday but how often
come on tell me how often
moment-by-moment
that is every day of her life as a
believer I am to walk aware of the
Spirit of God in their life you say well
no how can we do that how’s that
possible well I want to talk about that
but what it’s really saying is I’m to
live a godly life you can go to church
every Sunday you can pray a little bit
every once in a while you can give a
little bit you can read the Bible once
and walk
that’s not the Christian life the
Christian life is living submissive to
the holy spirit who indwells you for the
purpose the primary purpose of Jesus
Christ living his life in and through us
that’s why he came he came to do in us
and through us and for us what you and I
could never do ourselves and so to walk
listen to walk by the spirit is the ward
moment-by-moment but depending upon him
sensitive to his voice in our life and
as a result of that what’s gonna happen
we’re gonna live a godly life we are we
gonna live a life of obedience so I hope
you wrote that down
that’s what walking by the spirit that’s
that’s the Christian life because would
you not agree that if a person goes to
church and listens to sermons even takes
notes goes to work the next day and just
curses somebody out well you left
because you probably known a few folks
like that that’s not correct that’s not
Christian living now I didn’t say they
weren’t saved but it’s not Christian
living because the Christian life is in
life
in whom the Holy Spirit is dwelling and
through whom the Holy Spirit is
expressing the life of Jesus so that
comes to the whole question here of
being filled with a spirit what does it
mean to be filled with a spirit to be
filled with spirit means then I’m
totally submitted to him that he has his
way in my life moment by moment it’s his
way not my way now here is a big point I
want you to get this how do we walk by
the spirit that is we know he’s
indwelling us we know that he is doing
all these things and teaching and
guiding and leading and filling and
empowering and convicting and enabling
and all these things well so what’s my
responsibility it comes down to this and
that is if I’m going to live a
moment-by-moment in the power of the
Holy Spirit I must listen I must be
sensitive listen to the initial
promptings of the Spirit now what do I
mean by that simply this now let’s take
for example let’s say you’re a Christian
and all of a sudden you see something
that gets your eye or gets your
attention and you know
as soon as you see that all you look
that way or whatever it might be
something inside and says don’t go that
way
don’t head in that direction who is that
that’s the Holy Spirit or have you ever
been driving and you going some some
particular direction and all of a sudden
you get this strong feeling take a right
right here or whether that come from
well there’s nobody in the car but you
that’s the Spirit of God warning of
what’s about to happen which was a wreck
and the other ones you turn right listen
the Spirit of God within you speaks to
your spirit that is with strong
implications and strong incarnations the
Spirit of God arouses us to think and to
think his way the Spirit of God is an
active person in our spirit giving
guidance and direction shall we to live
because he said what did he come to
guide us to lead us and to empower us
and to reveal to us and to impart truth
and the truth of God’s Word to us and so
when I think about this whole idea of
him prompting us in the way he prompts
us he does so by strong inclinations now
somebody says well suppose I don’t
suppose he prompts me and I just keep
going well what would you call that let
me ask you this if you’re a 12 year old
boy you said your trip year old son take
the trash out now he says I’ll take it
out
but I got something else to do right now
I’ll tell you that later what would you
call that
that’s just pure disobedience in other
words that’s disobedience and here’s the
way many people live and you don’t
realize this if the Spirit of God
prompts you to do something obedience is
that you do it when he says do it
rebellion is when you do it when you
want to do it or you don’t do it at all
in any way you cut it it’s disobedience
in other words if the Spirit of God
prompts you to do something and you
don’t do it give me any other words that
best describe
what you did the disobedience and
rebellion it’s not doing what God says
do that’s what it is sense rebellion
against God so when he prompts us to do
something how does he do that he speak
to our conscience and to the spirit
within us now watch this the spirit of
God’s never gonna tell you not to do the
right thing it’s always the right thing
at the right time in the right way
listen the Holy Spirit is not the no
obligation to explain to me why well why
should I turn right here I should not
turn because there’s some things you and
I can’t see we can’t foresee he’s
protecting us in his listen it is
foolish not to live moment by moment by
the Holy Spirit because he’s there for
our benefit listen by the way God
doesn’t need any of us he doesn’t he can
get his work done without any of us but
he loves us enough to sealed us as a
child of God and one of his works is to
seal us under the day of redemption he
says that in first in Ephesians chapter
1 verse 13 he the Spirit of God seals us
now watch this that means when you
trusted him as your Savior the Holy
Spirit came into your life to dwell and
not only does he come to dwell but he
seals you as a child of God that is you
are forever a child of God and as I say
to my friends who do not believe that
and I’m sorry they don’t believe it
here’s what he says in him you also
having listened to the message of truth
the gospel of your salvation having also
believed you were sealed in him that is
in Christ with the Holy Spirit of
promise now what’s the promise here’s
the promise who has given us a pledge
now listen if I if I promise you
something and I pledge that to you you
expect me to fulfill it but when God
gives you a pledge and he sells you he
gives you a promise he has awesome power
to do anything and everything he’ll keep
his promise so here’s what he says he
seals us in Christ who is given as a
pledge of our inheritance that is the
Holy Spirit comes in your life in my
life in his presence in your life watch
this is God’s seal
your life saying to you I promise you
forever and ever and ever you one of my
children you may send and I’ll have to
chastise you for forever you wonder my
children now if the Spirit of God is the
one who seals us and seals us within
who’s gonna break the seal now for
people who do not believe that they are
saved forever and they saved today and
miss tomorrow let me just say something
if you understood the work of a Holy
Spirit you would not believe that I’ll
tell you why you claim to be a Christian
I don’t question that and you read your
Bible and pray and you may sing and cry
in orchestras or I’ll teach Sunday
School lesson all those things and you
just lose your temper and I mean you
just have it out with somebody so let
them have it
they did you wrong according to what you
believe you suddenly broke the seal
you’ve lost your promise and you lost
and on your way to separation to God oh
well now what I said wasn’t real all a
bit more wait a minute now sin is sin
and disobedience is disobedience the
promise the pledge of holy God is that
once he sees you as one of his children
you are forever a child of God you say
well I’m not and nobody’s perfect
nobody’s talking about perfection we’re
talking about being obedient to God and
what I want you to see is this God’s
seal is God’s seal it in my seal you
can’t you can’t break somebody else’s
seal your sealed forever and the Spirit
of God has equipped you to live a godly
life and we do that by moment by moment
doing what getting our focus right on
him now I wanted to say that all that
because it’s so very important but
people who genuinely want to do what’s
right they think this safe today and
lost tomorrow you know what when I was
growing up in that kind of a church I
was afraid every day that I probably did
something that was wrong and maybe I
forgot about it and I’d I’d go to hell
that’s what they said and the day I
learned the truth of what God said in
his word I wanted to shout right in the
middle of a class in a Greek class
because I understood for the first time
that I was forever
a child of God you got judges sin he
chastises the sinner he punishes the
unbeliever but for the child of God
the seal is there forever and it’s the
work of the spirit because it’s his
promise now with that in mind we think
about there is gonna be conflict
we got three enemies every morning you
wake up with three enemies the world the
flesh and the devil the world system in
which we live look at it what a mess
it’s in the devil for example and the
flesh that tendency within you that it
wants to do wrong at times in your life
it’s that’s gonna be there until you die
and so we have three enemies so so how
do we handle these three enemies well
Paul talks about resisting the devil for
example he talks about being filled with
the Holy Spirit and so here’s what
happens when that tendency comes to
think in the wrong direction watch this
now somebody says he can’t help myself
let me tell you something the devil
can’t make a single child of God do
anything he cannot make you he will lead
you he will guide you entice you tempt
you but he can’t make you so to walk in
the spirit means moment by moment what
moment by moment we are doing what we’re
listening to the Holy Spirit he’s our
guide but if someone says really you
mean to tell me that I can live without
sinning how long can I live without
sinning can you live five minutes
without sinning amen four people can
now let’s just think about what’s the
truth talk about four of you said you
could live you know what if I asked you
if you could live ten minutes without
sinning there wouldn’t be ten people
stand up do you mean to tell me you said
every five minutes that’s what you said
you said five minutes what about one
minute you can live a lot longer than
that without sinning you know why
because you have God living within you
guarding you leading you and if you will
listen if you will yield to the
promptings of the Holy Spirit of God
he’s always going to lead you to do the
right thing I’m not saying you always
will but I’m simply saying we have the
Spirit of God that’s that’s what walking
by the spirit is about it’s sending our
mind in a direction because we’re at war
and we’re always gonna be being attacked
by your friends by what you see what you
read what you hear all the things that
are going on the devil is there to
mislead us and to misdirect us and to
cause us to rebel against God but
because we have the Holy Spirit living
within us and we do I do understand that
we have a conflict now the issue is this
what do I do about the Holy Spirit so
turn back if you will to Romans chapter
eight and I want us to look in some
earlier verses in Romans chapter eight
and I want you to notice what he says in
this passage let’s begin in verse five
now watch this very important for those
who are living according to the flesh
that is there living by those desires
that they have within them that are not
of God and those desires can be one of
the many things so for those who are
living according the flesh watch this
set their minds on things of the flesh
but those who are living according to
the spirit they set their mind on things
of the Spirit now watch this every
single one of us sets our mind now
listen carefully what I’m saying we all
have a
said that some people get up every
morning with a mindset I’m I’m gonna do
my best today somebody else sets up on
the mindset I’m gonna do as little as I
can today somebody says I’m gonna I’m
gonna reach the top if I have to step on
them and mash him in other words
everybody has a mindset of some sort he
says that those who are living according
to the flesh that is that internal
feeling I want to act outside the will
of God they gonna live with the flesh
those who by the spirit you’ll live with
the spirit now watch this verse 6 for
the mind set on the flesh is death death
of the things of God the mind set on the
Spirit is life in peace because the mind
set on watch this carefully because the
mind set on the flesh is hostile toward
God to get that hostile toward yard when
you and I set our minds on doing things
and we know I’m not right here’s what he
says he says your attitude at that
moment is hostility toward you know all
no wait a minute
I love God no he says if you choose
deliberately to sin against God you’re
acting hostile toward God because the
will of God for your life is a life of
righteousness and obedience so he says
he says for the spirit set on the flesh
is death but this mind set on the spirit
is life in peace because the mind set on
the flesh is hostile toward God for it
does not subject itself to the law of
God for it is not even able to do so and
those who are living in the flesh cannot
please God so that being the case it
makes me want to know okay if that’s the
case how do I live according to the
spirit and so we have a battle now watch
this carefully every single one of us
has two battles every time we come to
some temptation first of all there’s a
battle in the mind secondly there’s the
battle in our behavior if you don’t win
the battle in the mind you’re gonna lose
the battle in your behavior because what
the mind thinks governs everything
governs what you see what you hear how
you speak walk handled you name it
the first battle and temptation is the
battle in the mind so I have to have a
mindset I choose to obey God
I choose not to walk that way I choose
not to look at that I choose not to give
to that I choose I choose not to
withhold that that is we have a mindset
and so there’s a battle that’s going on
and we win that battle as a result of
doing what yielding to and responding to
the initial prompting of the Spirit
now if the Spirit of God says don’t go
that direction and you just keep
traveling don’t go that direction don’t
go that direction don’t go that
direction you see you still travel what
you’re doing is you’re listen to this
word
you’re acting hostile toward God who
loves you and who has the best plan
available for you and you’re heading in
the wrong direction because you have
chosen to do so
it’s disobedience it’s rebellion its
hostility toward a loving God who came
to this earth and laid down his life in
all that you might be saying it’s
hostility toward God you can name it you
can camouflage it you can paint it you
can use any kind of vocabulary you want
to its hostility that’s what God says I
didn’t say it so you have to decide am I
gonna walk by the spirit above the flesh
if I want God’s best I’m gonna have a
mindset and first Peter listen what he
says he says in this first chapter in
the thirteenth verse therefore prepare
your minds for action keep sober in
spirit listen prepare your minds for
action and in Colossians the third
chapter listen to what he says to say
it’s the same sort of thing here’s what
he says therefore if you have been
raised up with Christ keep seeking the
things which above have a mind set on
things that are good righteous anole
he says where Christ is seated at the
Father’s right hand set your mind on the
things above not on the things that are
on earth we have a mindset for example
you say well how do I do that well
tomorrow let’s just take tomorrow
morning tomorrow morning before you get
out of bed and you wake up you set your
mind on the things of God today father
he’s the first one you ought to talk to
anyway father I want you to guide me
today and lead me I want to listen to
you speak to my heart make me sensitive
to what’s going on around
mean the people I meet and so forth that
is it you’ll develop your own little
message of setting your mind so what
happens you’re starting the day out with
a mind set you’ve set the direction for
your life and it’s the Holy Spirit who
is going to awaken you to remind you of
that because you know what you’re gonna
think about that tomorrow morning you
say how do you know I am because I’m
gonna pray you get so upset if you don’t
you will they have a mindset because
listen they’re people who wake up with a
mindset of adultery they’re people who
wake up with a mindset of stealing they
wake up with a mindset of lying of what
they what they intend to do that day
they’re people who wake up with all kind
of mindsets set your mind he says on the
things above where Jesus is sitting at
the Father’s right hand because we can
set our mind and the Holy Spirit will
enable us to do it it’s his will that we
do it and that’s why the Word of God is
so very very precious to us why because
this is the way we think you don’t
listen you don’t read and meditate on
the Word of God you know what you’re
gonna do listen you sit at home watch TV
program after program after program at
the only kind of propaganda at all the
things that are absolutely nothing to do
with things that are spiritual and then
you go to bed you think well I’m gonna
wake up and talk about Jesus I doubt it
you know why because you just programmed
your mind you know what you did you fed
that part of you that’s ungodly you fed
that part of you with all the stuff that
goes on why would anybody want to watch
stuff that instigates stirs them up and
arouses things within them that are
totally ungodly because there’s
something in them they want to feed and
what he’s saying is starve it to death
set your mind on the things of God on
the things that are on high the things
that the things that match who you are
you’re a follower of Jesus our life is a
representative of the Lord Jesus Christ
listen we owe him a life he died for us
he gave us the gift of salvation and
eternal life we owe him everything
how can we involve ourselves and allow
ourselves the head in directions that we
know is not right the Spirit of God
says do not go that do not do that do
not think that don’t look at that we do
it anyway
remember this anyway you cut it it is
rebellion it is disobedience and it’s
hostility to and God you want to live a
godly life have a mindset that is godly
so that when somebody crosses you your
mindset is I’ll get you back your
mindset it’s thank you very much
laughter’s forgive them for that I’m
just gonna overlook that I won’t pay
attention of that in other words godly
people don’t live like the ungodly and
we listen when we are walking in the
spirit there is an absolute definite
difference in our life your friends may
not understand it they think well you
just thank you something no we don’t
think we’re anything we know that which
your God that’s who we are and we know
that we are inadequate within ourselves
to do anything that hasn’t real value we
trust the Holy Spirit we depend upon him
we rely upon him we’re sensitive to him
we acknowledge him we obey him why
because we’ve learned that’s the best
way to live it’s the only way to live
with real peace and happiness and joy
and contentment in your life and it’s
the way God intends for us to live
because he came to live through us that
kind of life that’s the work of the Holy
Spirit that’s who he is
and I would simply say this to you why
why did David say he loved to meditate
upon God’s Word because you see he had a
mindset and we see in his life when he
when he turned away from that mind said
what kind of trouble he got into you and
I have the Holy Spirit we have the Holy
Spirit in a way that he didn’t even
understand could not have understood at
that time you are in dwelt by a person
of the Trinity Almighty God the Holy
Spirit who is here to enable us equip us
managers guide us lead us to do anything
and everything that it is his will for
us to do in to accomplish in life you
say well I’m just the homemaker there’s
no such thing as just a homemaker you
happen to have one of the biggest jobs I
know uh if anybody needs the Holy Spirit
in their life it is a mother look what
you have to do
you have to take care of the children
plus you have to take care of your
husband sometime put up with him but in
other words you you haven’t you have an
awesome job educating your children
keeping home all the hundreds and
hundreds of tasks that you have the Holy
Spirit is just as innocent he’s just as
available ready and desirous to help you
to be a godly mother as he is to helping
the pastor preach a godless sermon
that’s who he is so here’s the choice
you have you can set your mind on the
things of God and Trust this indwelling
person of the Holy Spirit who has
promised to guide you lead you enable
you equip you give you authority on all
the other things we’ve mentioned here
you have the Holy Spirit living within
you ready to live through you the very
life of Jesus Christ which means yet
your attitude and your actions are going
to be godly it’s a choice we make he
said what do I have to do get all that
done just surrender just yield just tell
him okay god I give up my way once your
way what does he do he takes over now is
it not true that’s what you want your
children to do you want them to trust
you and obey you why because you know
what’s best for them and you know you
give your life for them he’s sort of
given his life for us to walk in the
spirit
it’s the do what is to depend upon him
totally to rely upon him to be sensitive
to what he’s saying to us and to obey
Him that is life at its very very very
best and it’s available to every single
person who wants God’s best father how
grateful we are for your awesome love
for us and to think that you’ve done so
much in preparation for our daily life
then we can wake up with you live with
you and go to bed with you every night
with perfect assurance that we have your
favor
knowing that you forgive us when we’re
weak and knowing that our hearts desire
its moment-by-moment
to walk by your spirit that is my prayer
father for every person who hears this
message let there be some radical
changing going on in people’s attitudes
radical changing about sin that they put
up with and thought the God that you
paid no attention to it and radical
right doing because they want your best
I pray the Holy Spirit seal this message
executed in every life arouse the
conviction so that all that you desire
for us will have the wonderful privilege
of enjoying in Jesus name Amen and we
give an invitation for people to express
their decision one of which for example
is to trust Jesus Christ as their
personal Savior and you do that by
asking him to forgive you of your sin
not not that well Lord forgive me of my
sins but you come to the realization
you’ve sinned against God you’re part of
what put him to the cross he died on the
cross she had his blood listen paid your
sin debt in full for your eternal life
makes it possible if you’d be a child of
God and the moment you do that and
everything else we’ve talked about can
be a reality in your life until you give
yourself to him and salvation by faith
none of this other works but it shows
there’s a choice
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